Obama at annual prayer breakfast: "Jesus would support higher taxes"

[Chris_]

WWJD? Would He Support the Buffett Rule? President Obama Suggests Yes

"I think to myself, if I’m willing to give something up as somebody who’s been extraordinarily blessed and give up some of the tax breaks that I enjoy, I actually thinks that’s going to make economic sense.”

The president continued: “But for me as a Christian, it also coincides with Jesus’ teaching that, from to whom much is given, much shall be required.”

He added that the principle also “mirrors the Islamic belief that though who’ve been blessed have an obligation to use those blessings to help others; or the Jewish doctrine of moderation and consideration for others.”

The president also mentioned how the White House Office of Faith-Based Initiatives had partnered with Catholic Charities to help the poor, but he made no mention of how leaders of the Catholic Church are currently irate about the recent Obama administration rule requiring every health insurance program to include contraception, even though Catholic dogma opposes many forms of birth control and considers some of them – including birth controls pills – the taking of human life.

Obama is as much a Bilblical scholar as he is a Constitutional one.

[Rugnuts]

jesus supports a 10% flat tax. from everyone. rich/poor black/white american/irish etc.
just ask my pastor, he preaches about it every sunday.

[Flame]

jesus supports a 10% flat tax. from everyone. rich/poor black/white american/irish etc.
just ask my pastor, he preaches about it every sunday.

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[Freeper]

Ok lefties, I constantly hear about separation of church and state, so if Jesus wanted to tax the rich would that not violate the separation of church and state?

[CG6468]

No document mentions separation of church and state.

[docstew]

I think Jesus would rather we give directly to each other rather than through a government middle man and also that he'd prefer giving done through a charitable spirit as opposed to by compulsion under threat of force.

[NHSparky]

I think it was Stuart Varney on F&F who said this morning, (paraphrasing) that it was amazing how an administration that shit on religion so much should then invoke it to justify taxing people more.

[Eupher]

I think Jesus would rather we give directly to each other rather than through a government middle man and also that he'd prefer giving done through a charitable spirit as opposed to by compulsion under threat of force.

Bingo, and spot-the-hell-on.

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